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IT’S STRANGE but many people actually think of and refer to Africa as if it were one country, not a continent of many and diverse nations.

Last week, I was at the launch of a great idea by The Three Gorges Oriental Restaurant in Abbey Trinity, Tuam. Their idea is to bring authentic Chinese restaurant food to your home if you are having an event such as a 21st party or indeed any birthday, anniversary, confirmation, Communion, a wedding with a difference, or perhaps the afters of a wedding party. Traditionally there have been other options available such as cold meat platters, cold fish platters, beef stroganoff, chicken curry, and I am sure most readers have had these types of dishes at many functions. The possibility of having your favourite Chinese food at an event will, I believe, appeal to many.

Barnstorm Theatre Company’s new production Big Sister Little Brother asks some interesting questions of Rita and Archie. Why are they on the run?

Poor little brother, is what the young audience at the Barn Theatre in Kilkenny were thinking after seeing the wonderful play ‘Big Sister, Little Brother’ last week. The children from Gaelscoil Osrai were squealing with delight at the antics of brother and sister team Archie and Rita as they escaped to the country and chased each other around the stage.

The roots of the Vienna Boys' Choir (Wiener Sängerknaben) go back to the 13th century. For centuries, the choir was attached to the royal Austrian court. In the late 15th century, the choir was part of the court music of Maximilian I, the Holy Roman Emperor, who moved the court from Innsbruck to Vienna.

A geological phenomenon in southwest China is more than 400 kilometres of towering limestone rocks covered in vegetation. It’s a spectacular landscape. Thousands of these hills soar into the sky, weathered and carved by the wind and rain, often taking on the shape of a man fishing, an elephant drinking water, or a woman feeding her baby, or eager friendly creatures looking down at you (the Chinese are wonderful for encouraging you to look at natural shapes in caves and mountains and say; ‘use your imagination, what do you see?’). These cone-shaped wonders become in effect a ‘forest of hills’, and their beauty is doubled as they are reflected in the River Li, which winds though them like a blue silk ribbon.

WITH ITS instantly recognisable opening aria sung to a tree (‘Ombra Mai Fu’) and a storyline bristling with thwarted passions, Xerxes is arguably Handel’s greatest opera.

THIS SATURDAY at the Galway City Museum, renowned playwright and novelist John Arden will launch his new collection of short stories, Gallows and other tales of Suspicion and Obsession.

O’EMPEROR have been hailed by Hotpress as “nothing short of genius”, Futuresounds compared them to Fleet Foxes, while Totally Dublin said they “have ticked off the right boxes to create a post-rock classic”.